There are some old foundations, rock borders, and you can see the tracks from the old road, but no idea what was here. What do you think? If anyone knows we'd love to know. Our best guess was a way station of some kind for travelers. The train tracks are a little too far away for a rail stop, unless they've been moved. Clodbuster 2 reported that there is a cistern east of the site up the hill. Site includes the "Steps to Nowhere" (below) which would also have made a good name for this cache!
A BIG THANKS to JJAC for letting us know this is the site of the Jericho CCC camp that his grandfather, who was from Mobile, Alabama was at. There are pictures of the area and the men that were here in the museum in Eureka. So knowing that - here is some real history on this area for anyone interested.
"The Juab County Commission request[ed] help in obtaining a [CCC] camp in western Juab County. A camp then was established at Jericho, and the first group of men arrived in the latter part of November 1935. Within a few days they were working on the old pioneer road from Silver City to Utah County. The Eureka Reporter included 'Jericho CCC Camp News' as a column in its regular weekly paper from 1935 to 1941. It covered the work the corpsmen accomplished as well as their sports activities, educational projects, increases and decreases in enrollment, and other things. The Jericho camp also published its own monthly paper. It was originally planned to be called the Deseret Breeze, but the name was changed to the Walls of Jericho. Further changes followed, however, and it was finely [sic] first published as the Jericho Journal in June 1938. . . .
"By the end of November 1937 they had completed a variety of projects, including the reconstruction of the six-mile pioneer road at Silver Divide and the development and cribbing of an old well at an unnamed spring. The crib stored 5,000 gallons of water and the well delivered a flow of thirty gallons per minute. Metal troughs were installed and a pumphouse built to house a small pumping unit that would deliver forty gallons per minute. A spring at Mud Springs was dug out, cribbed, and covered. The water was piped underground and flowed into a twenty-foot trough. A small reservoir was constructed to store the overflow. The first section of the ninety-mile Cherry Creek Road was built to extend from Highway 26 near Jericho to the Nevada line. A stock-watering project called Desert Mountain Reservoir consisted of an earth dam with the face and spillway rip-rapped. Coyote Knoll Reservoir and Hole-in-Rock Reservoir (located in Little Sage Valley) were also built, as were four earthen dams to check erosion and spread out the water at Hop Creek Wash. A Goshen cattle corral was constructed of quaking aspen poles, with graveled sorting pens, a squeeze chute, and watering troughs. The River Bed Excavation Reservoir was dug and the dirt used for a long fill on a road across a low portion of the old riverbed. Feeder ditches were made to increase water storage. Emergency snow removal projects provided a means for feeding approximately 20,000 snowbound sheep. Roads leading to homes in Cow Hollow were also cleared. A project called the No-Name Corral was made with cedar posts and old railroad ties. During the summer of 1936, crickets infested the area near Hassell ranch. The camp secured the loan of 5,000 turkeys, provided transportation for them, herded them during the battle, and returned a much-fattened flock at the end of a three-month campaign. The method proved to be very successful and national publicity resulted from this novel means of eradication. This is just some of what the CCC camp accomplished while it was in west Juab County.
"The young CCC corpsmen were generally accepted by those in the surrounding communities; in fact, some of them married girls from Utah and took them back to their homes, while others stayed in Utah. [Utah History Suite Edition 4 CD; Utah State Historical Society: Utah Centennial County History Series, Pearl D. Wilson with June McNulty and David Hampshire, "A History of Juab County," from chapter 8, pp 211-212.]